How do you protect a river for future generations when the winds are slow?

The work is steady and the payoff isn't always visible in a single season.

Today's guests join to talk about the work the Upper Missouri Watershed Alliance is working on this year.

A group that gathers long-term scientific data on water quality, macroinvertebrates, and flushing flows in the Upper Missouri

Watershed, then uses this information to guide effective actions on things like stream work,

stream restoration, invasive species control, and the health and monitoring the stream.

We're also going to get into some random tangents, a little bit on fishing, a little bit on music.

It's going to be a fun one.

This is the Wet Fly Swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing,

how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love.

Josh Secondger and David Stagliano are here today with the Upper Missouri Watershed Alliance.

They're going to walk us through what they do throughout the year.

We're going to talk about the long-term data they're collecting on macro invertebrates and water quality

and how this is playing into protecting the river and making sure things are good

for fishing. We're also going to find about more on what they're working on moving ahead, what the

biggest challenges are and what you can do to help out. We're also going to be talking about

a big trip we're doing this next year. And if you want to get a chance right now, you can go to

wetfly swing.com slash giveaway. We're going to be giving away a trip to the Missouri. I'll be there along with some other folks. And if you want to get a spot for this trip, we also have some paid spots. You can do that right now, Dave at webfly swing.com. All right, let's jump into it. You can find the Upper Missouri Watershed Alliance at U-M-O-W-A.org. Here they are. How are you guys doing? Doing great. Doing great. Thanks for having us, Dave. Yeah, yeah, thanks for being here. We're going to get into a little bit about what you guys do. We're doing a big trip, and hopefully we're going to be connecting to an event that you guys have out there. I know we're going to talk about the rendezvous you do what that's all about, but just a whole kind of year and review of the projects you have going. And I know, Josh, you're new there, fairly new. So we're going to talk about that as well. But why don't you guys just introduce yourself first?

David, maybe we'll start with you since you've been there a little while and who you are. Just give us a little quick little elevator pitch on what you do. And then we'll do that for Josh and we'll jump into it. Okay. Yeah, this is David Stegliano and I am the sole proprietor of Montana Biological Survey, a consulting firm in Montana. I've been at that position since 2015,

but I've been in the state working on state projects since about 2003. And I actually came on with the Umoa in 2015 when they wanted to start some of these projects. And I was a pretty, pretty good scientific name in Montana.

So they brought me on.

How about you, Josh?

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